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A letter written by Mordechai Rosenblat to Mendel Rozenblit on a form issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine Search Bureau.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 05839
A letter written by Mordechai Rosenblat to Mendel Rozenblit on a form issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine Search Bureau. In response to a previous letter written by Mendel, the writer says he can read the despondency between the lines of his letter. He exhorts Mendel not to despair, He writes that " it was our fate to survive, and now we have to aspire to new lives without despair..." He suggests that Mendel should seek the company of Zionists, "people who march with the song "Hatikvah" on their lips. Join them and sing like them and try to be strong like them."

A letter written by Mordechai Rosenblat to Mendel Rozenblit on a form issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine Search Bureau.

In response to a previous letter written by Mendel, the writer says he can read the despondency between the lines of his letter. He exhorts Mendel not to despair, He writes that " it was our fate to survive, and now we have to aspire to new lives without despair..." He suggests that Mendel should seek the company of Zionists, "people who march with the song "Hatikvah" on their lips. Join them and sing like them and try to be strong like them."

Date
1946 April 02
Locale
Munich, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale
Muenchen
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Policy/Administration -- Tracing Service
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Marsha Rozenblit

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Biography
Mendel Rozenblit (the donor's father) was born in Lukow, Poland on November 13, 1907. He was the son of Abram Icek and Masza (Markusfeld) Rozenblit, who owned a general store in the town. Mendel had five siblings: Nehama, Shia, Simcha, Haim Yaakov, and Meir. In 1929 Mendel married and moved to Wolomin near Warsaw. The following year, his wife gave birth to a son Avraham. Soon after, however, Mira died, and Mendel married her sister Perele. A second child, Tova, was born to him in 1934. During the Nazi occupation Mendel lived in the Wolomin ghetto until it was liquidated and he was deported to Auschwitz. He spent eighteen months in the concentration camp before his evacuation in January 1945 on one of the death marches to Germany. The remaining months of the war were spent in Dachau, where he was liberated by American troops in April 1945. With the exception of his father who died in 1919, and his brother Haim, who died in Palestine in 1943, Mendel's entire family was killed by the Nazis. During the first two years after the liberation, Mendel lived independently in an apartment in Munich. Though he was urged by relatives to settle in Palestine and he explored the possibility of emigrating to Australia, Mendel opted to go to the U.S. when his visa was granted. He sailed aboard the Marine Flasher from Bremerhaven on November 27, 1947.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Marsha Rozenblit
 
Record last modified: 2000-06-28 00:00:00
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